Search Results: Authors starting with P from Robert Dagg Rare Books

New York: George H. Doran Company, [1925]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Apparently one of the few Doran books from this period not to require the GHD insignia on the copyright page. Very good to near fine book in a bright crisp dust jacket that would be fine but for a shallow chip at top of spine panel.

New York: George H. Doran Company, [1927]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a very good to near fine dust jacket with some fading to spine panel A fine copy in a dust jacket with a few small chips at spine ends. Far East setting.

Garden City: Doubleday. Doran and Company, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a very good dust jacket with restoration at edges and to a quarter-sized area in the upper left-hand corner of the front panel. Striking jacket design by Boris Artzybasheff. A Hildegarde Withers mystery. Crime club.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1937. LATER PRINTING. Hardcover. Not a first but with a nice inscription on the flyleaf: "For Keddie-- Wondering where he dug this one up! The same story was told that same year by my friend Jack Latimer (under the name of Peter Coffin). Surprisingly your friend. Stu Palmer. Dec 1952." Beneath his signature Palmer has drawn his trademark penguin. A clean near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. Crime Club. The Latimer title referred to in the inscription is "The Search for My Great Uncle's Head."

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, [1933]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Stated. A fine book in a fine dust jacket (faint crease in front panel). The composers discussed include Stravinsky, Strauss, Hindemuth, Kodaly, Schonberg, Ravel, Williams and Honegger. Includes a chapter on American Music. Indexed. Portraits drawn while the composers were still living.

New York:: Julian Messner,, [1939].. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.. Hardcover. Cloth faded at spine eds. Else very good to near fine in a fine bright dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a very good dust jacket, slightly darkened at spine with a few minor chips and tears. Some small tape repairs on verso.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Issued as the second volume of Main Currents in American Thought. Scarce in this condition.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Stated first. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some shallow chipping at edges. Basis for the Nicholas Ray film noir Born to Be Bad (1950) with Joan Fontaine, Zachary Scott and Robert Ryan.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in dust jacket (some faint creasing at spine ends).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1961]. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Ten short stories from the author of Cry, the Beloved Country.

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with only minute edgewear.

New York: Horace Liveright, [1930]. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary presentation copy Inscribed on the blank leaf opposite the half-title: " To Joe Warner, the honest / politician. Elliot Paul. Aug. 20, 1930." A fine book in a very good example of the scarce dust jacket (designed by "Sugar") with some shallow chipping at top of spine and a slightly darkened spine panel. A nice association copy, possibly inscribed to one of the models for the title character. Joseph Warner served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1919 to 1920, as the Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1928 to 1935, and as a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1940 until his death in 1958.

Oxford: Pergamon Press, [1958]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Clean, near fine book, lacking a dust jacket.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1955. FIRST EDITION. Previous owner's rubber stamp on front flyleaf. Else a near fine book in a very good to near fine dust jacket, slightly browned at spine. Front flap price-clipped. Issued as part of the International Monographs on Radio.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1935]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Two volumes. One of 150 copies bound entirely uncut. Fine copies in the original dust jackets (fine but for some browning to the panels touch inside the slipcase) in a near fine publisher's box. Uncommon in such fine condition. Scarce biography of the Gypsy scholar and chronicler.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine in dust jacket.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1975]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. First issue with top edges stained orange. A fine copy in dust jacket with one tiny closed tear at head of spine.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with some minute wear at edges (one tiny chip at base of spine). Crime Club.